If everything is not physical then something more must exist and it must be non-physical.
If ‘something
more’ does exist then physical things could possibly interact with it and could
therefore transcend their natural physical course.
For
choice to exist the Chooser needs to be able to control these interactions.
Since purely physical things are only results, human beings would require
‘something more’ to allow them to control the interactions; otherwise they
would be purely physical and lack the possibility of choice.
Observably, human beings possess a physical
body and if ‘choice’ is real they also possess a ‘more’. So then, a being
without a human ‘more’ must not be fully human; and likewise if a physical body
does possess a human ‘more’ it would be fully human.
However, the only way we can so far
determine whether a physical body possess a ‘more’, (which would be
non-physical), is to observe the interactions between the two things. So then,
a non-physical ‘more’ could exist before and after the physical aspect is
present for interactions.
For the example of organ donation it is
widely accepted that consent must be given by the person to have a part of
their body put under the control of a different person. Without consent it
would be considered an invasion for a person to use their ‘more’ to interact
onto another person’s unique body. [A unique body may be determined by a unique
genetic code or a unique physical spatial presence; (e.g. clones).] If
individual choice exists then each individual must possess a unique connection
between a ‘more’ and their unique physical body.
Therefore, if ‘choice’ exists a human being would be described as the
possible existence of a ‘more’ that is associated with a unique genetic (or spatial)
physical presence.
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